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Cake day: June 29th, 2024

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  • Straya.
    To be fair I haven’t gone around asking people if they dislike peanut butter, it’s just sort of assumed that everyone likes it (and other spreads like nutella), and I’d be surprised to hear somebody saying they didn’t like it.
    We have many local brands. I don’t think I’ve tried one from the USA yet, but we probably have a few imported ones at costco.






  • Probably because it’s only four bytes of data, and counting/extracting bits takes more cpu time than one AND operation.
    Most CPU’s are optimised to work with whole integers (32/64 bit) rather than individual bits.

    If memory was a serious concern you could compress it down to one byte as a ‘number of 1s’ counter at the cost of additional cpu operations, but because 3 extra bytes is such a small amount of data, this memory/time trade off isn’t worth it in most systems.

    It’d be useful if you wanted to compress some data logs or something with many subnet masks though.










  • Here’s a link to the study I mentioned earlier, which indicates that list experiments are not an accurate way to determine the level of preference falsification.
    In it, the real response was often more than double the difference between direct polling and the list experiment results.

    You continue to argue against things I’ve never said. Calling you out for saying I’ve said or argued for something which I haven’t is not acting high and mighty.
    And yet, here you are doing it again…

    I never said all polling is wrong, just polling that didn’t properly account for falsification, which the list method is clearly unable to do.

    More of the surveyed Russians said they would prefer to talk with Ukraine over continuing military actions.
    That doesn’t mean that’s what the government/Putin also believes, it means the population would generally prefer diplomacy over war.

    By your same line of logic, why should anyone support LGBT people in places where it’s illegal if you don’t have any plans to change their country’s laws?
    We need timeline estimates otherwise it’s pointless.

    It’s a terrible defeatist argument which is not worth humoring.

    I’m done talking with you now.
    You’re deliberately ignoring and misinterpreting any points that don’t align with your view, and its tiring.

    All that said, this has been an interesting bit of insight into the mind of a bigot.